2023-03-07
- The Stat-MS Prep Track at the University of Illinois is an opportunity for upperclassmen who are interested in pursuing a master's degree in statistics to get a head start on their coursework. The program is designed for students who are close to completing their undergraduate degree and have extra...
2023-02-28 - Ten university teams have been selected to participate in the live interactions phase of the Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge. As of February, those teams have advanced to the semifinals based on their performance during the...
2023-02-02 - The American Statistical Association (ASA) have named two Illinois Statistics-PhD students as recipients of ASA Student Paper Competition awards. Rong Tang and Rentian Yao are among the award winners of their respective categories based on the quality and content of their submissions. Tang, a...
2023-01-30 - On December 7th, students and faculty gathered for the Fall 2022 Undergrad Research Symposium. URES allows students to work with experienced faculty on a research project, which is then presented at the end-of-semester event. I visited the Campus Instructional Facility to see the different types of...
2023-01-24 - Two Statistics PhD students were recognized for their exceptional work at the 2022 International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) conference. Fourth-year PhD student, Kaustav Chakraborty, received third place in the Student Poster Competition for his research entitled "Efficient Model...
2023-01-09 - Karle Flanagan and Alex Stepanov have been chosen as the inaugural recipients of the Department of Statistics Award for Excellence in Instruction. This award recognizes the impact that instructors have on their students by taking a holistic approach to understanding how faculty members facilitate...
2023-01-09 - Professor Naveen Narisetty was honored with the inaugural Early Career Award in Statistics and Data Sciences (ECASDS) at the Indian International Statistical Association (IISA) conference, held from December 26-30, 2022 in Bangalore, India. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the...
2022-12-19 - There is a fascinating, intricate science behind America’s favorite pastime. Statistics and data science have quickly become a vital asset to MLB organizations. If this interests you, you may enjoy the new Stat 430: Baseball Analytics with Professor Daniel Eck. Even if you aren’t particularly a...
2022-12-13 - After the onset of COVID-19, policymakers were dismayed by many people who avoided personal and public safety measures designed to curb the spread of the virus. Many social scientists mobilized to better understand this behavior, including Jake Bowers, a professor of ...
2022-11-03 - The Department of Statistics is pleased to announce the opening of the nomination period for the inaugural Excellence in Instruction Award. The Statistics Department Award for Excellence in Instruction recognizes consistently outstanding instruction by a faculty member of the Statistics department...
2022-11-02 - Yubo Zhuang, second-year Statistics-PhD student, was recently notified of being awarded a 2022 NeuIPS 2022 Scholar Award for his paper titled “Wasserstein K-means for clustering probability distributions.” The Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS...
2022-10-31 - The Department of Statistics invites applications for multiple specialized faculty positions (100% for 9 months) that support our growing statistics, statistics & computer science, and data science programs on campus. All areas of teaching expertise will be considered, but areas of priority...
2022-10-31 - The Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applications for an open rank faculty (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor) position in Statistics and Data Science (100% for 9 months). All areas of Statistics and Data Science are welcome. The anticipated starting...
2022-10-07 - New research by Dr. Susu Zhang and a team of researchers provides fresh insights into when bifactor models—a popular statistical method used to explain psychological phenomena—will and will not generate unique results. Psychologists often use a collection of items—survey questions,...
2022-09-30 - Sihai Dave Zhao (GNDP), an associate professor of statistics, has been appointed the Director of Computational Genomics at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. Zhao has been a member of the IGB for over eight years, joining the year he came to the University of Illinois Urbana-...